So #CityNatureChallenge2026 is live! Good to see a number of Asian Cities in Malaysia, Taiwan and Hong Kong making up the top-10 lists so far www.citynaturechallenge.org/live #CNC2026 #CityNatureChallenge2026

See also the cross post on our blog here citizenscience.asia/journal/citi...

We love April because it is #CitizenScienceMonth, a global celebration that highlights the public’s role in scientific research. To kick things off, you can find a curated list of great #citizenscience projects around Asia . 🎉 🔬 👨🏻‍🦲 🐋 🧑🏾‍🔬 🐝 🧑‍🏫 🌡️ 🎉 citizenscience.asia/journal/citi...

As #CNC2026 organisers for #HongKong, OWLHK (Outdoor Wildlife Learning Hong Kong) are reaching out to see if any local groups are hosting any outdoor field trip activities during #CityNatureChallenge www.owlhk.org/en/place-bas...

More examples of the long history of #CitizenScience in Asia, with 1400yrs of poetry helping map the historical range of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise. “Poems are actually ancient citizen science” mereconomics.com/2025/05/07/p...

LOVE LETTERS TO ZOONIVERSE: Celebrating 90,000 Classifications in a College Classroom in China From individual volunteers working on their own devices to students gaining hands-on research experience, the messages we receive often reveal how citizen science fits into very different lives and…

The Young Zoologists’ Association of Sri Lanka invites submissions for the 6th Citizen Scientists’ Symposium on Conservation and Ecology 2026 www.facebook.com/srilankayza/... #citizenscience #citsci

Amazing finding from the Great Reef Census. Citizen scientists discover a Great Barrier Reef coral giant ‘like a rolling meadow’ www.theguardian.com/environment/... #citizenscience

Peace Corps crowdfunding a project on the Coastal Resource #CitizenScience Initiative www.peacecorps.gov/donate/proje...

Very cool talk in Hong Kong on 31st March: Decoding the Wild: How AI is Translating the Language of Nature www.eventbrite.hk/e/decoding-t...

Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden (KFBG) in #HongKong offering Infrared Camera Trap workshops www.kfbg.org/en/events/in...

Thank you to everyone that participated in the Jacana Project Secretariat Bioblitz this weekend. You have helped increase the number of @inaturalist.bsky.social observations in Botataung District of Yangon by about 150% www.inaturalist.org/projects/the...

Final day of the Jacana Project bioblitz at the Secretariat in Yangon, and already the students (pictured here) have made more @inaturalist.bsky.social observations in the Secretariat grounds than have ever been seen in all of Botahtaung District www.inaturalist.org/projects/the... #citizenscience

If you are in Yangon this weekend don't miss this Art+Science event at the Secretariat, with an accompanying @inaturalist.bsky.social bioblitz on the student day (possibly the first in Myanmar?). Follow and join the iNaturalist project here www.inaturalist.org/projects/the...

Pint of Science Thailand has a Halloween Edition on Weds 29th October 2025. They've invited 4 speakers to give the talks under the theme ‘Fright at Night’ – to spook us through science! Sign up here to register: forms.microsoft.com/r/PL3X8FD7fR

While the #AsiaNatureChallenge Identification stage is underway we have a webinar tonight: "From Observation to Confirmation: A Thoughtful Approach to Species Identification" on 10th October, 2025 at 7 PM IST. 📌 Register for the session: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Exciting talk lined up to close the observation phase of #AsiaNatureChallenge with Tony Iwane, Community & Support Coordinator, @inaturalist.bsky.social 📅 October 6th, 2025 (Monday) 🕙 10:00 AM PT | 10:30 PM IST 👉 Enroll here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Asia Nature Challenge 2025 is Go! medium.com/citizenscien... #ANC2025 #AsiaNatureChallenge

Tick Tock! We have only three days to make #AsiaNatureChallenge the biggest bioblitz Asia has seen! Let’s do our part for Asian biodiversity www.inaturalist.org/projects/asi... #ANC2025

First morning of #AsiaNatureChallenge and you can track the progress from our @iNaturalist page. Time to get out there and start observing the incredible biodiversity of our continent www.inaturalist.org/projects/asi... #ANC2025

#AsiaNatureChallenge is almost upon us, and just to get you started there's a final Overview & Discussion session on 2nd Oct, 6:00 PM IST to help people feel more confident in using @inaturalist.bsky.social and ask final questions #ANC2025. 📌 Join the session: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

For those of you in #HongKong, Sunny is arranging an #AsiaNatureChallenge field guide to Pat Heung on the morning of Oct 1 2025 (which is the National Day holiday). If there is still space (limited to 20 participants) you can sign up with the QR code #ANC2025

In the buildup to #AsianNatureChallenge are pleased to bring you another exciting session on “Moth Magic -a Rough Guide to Moth Recording using iNaturalist” on 30th September at 2:00 PM IST. 📌 Register via the QR code, or visit us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #ANC2025

🌿 Get Started with @inaturalist.bsky.social for #ANC2025! 🌏 We’re hosting a beginner-friendly workshop on 16th Sept, 5 PM IST to help you explore iNaturalist and get ready for the Asia Nature Challenge 2025. 📌 Register via the QR code, or visit us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #AsiaNatureChallenge

The Return of Asia Nature Challenge #ANC2025 gigasciencejournal.com/blog/the-ret... #AsiaNatureChallenge #ANC2025 #CitizenScience

#AsiaNatureChallenge #ANC2025 is a chance for all of us to notice and record the life we often overlook. Join in this October and be part of a collective effort to understand and protect the living world around us. citizenscience.asia/naturechalle...

Participate in the #AsiaNatureChallenge 🌿 Be the Eyes for Asia’s Biodiversity 🗓️ Dates to Remember 3–6 Oct: Step outdoors and take photos/sounds of biodiversity around you. Upload these to iNaturalist 7–12 Oct: Help identify and verify what others found! citizenscience.asia/naturechalle...

Call for Volunteers for #AsiaNatureChallenge: Want to help organise a continent-wide citizen science bioblitz happening 3–12 Oct 2025?🌏 Let’s work together to showcase Asia’s incredible biodiversity to the world! 📷 Apply here by 17th August: forms.gle/eyBDkB7984GQ...

New CitSciAsia meets... video with Dr. Alexey Reshchikov, where he talks about being a #citizenscience advocate and fan. And why he participated in #AsiaNatureChallenge. Stay tuned for more information as we come up to #ANC2025 youtu.be/Q4R29SCBDPg?...

Nice piece that mentions #AsiaNatureChallenge and the Big Butterfly Count in Nepal. ‘Scratching the surface’ of Nepal butterfly research: Interview with Sanej Suwal news.mongabay.com/2024/11/scra...

Asia Nature Challenge is back! Asia's biggest #citzenscience celebration of biodiversity is returning in October. 📅 Save the date: October 3-6th Stay tuned for more information as it comes. #ANC2025 #AsiaNatureChallenge

Plenty of time to participate in the #HongKong Caterpillar Photo Contest

🌍 Webinar: Integrating #CitizenScience Data into Official Statistics for Air Quality Monitoring 📅 Date: Monday, 16 June 2025 🕛 Time: 12:00–13:30 UTC 📍 Online | Free registration required: tinyurl.com/47tajavd

From #citizenscience crowdfunded community project to a complete gapless (T2T) genome. Mission Accomplished for Bauhinia Genome bauhiniagenome.hk/2025/04/miss...

Sign up to watch Raghu Saxena (Earthwatch India) present at an Allin Wayra webinar on #citizenscience and Air pollution on 25th May (see QR code)

As identification is underway in #CityNatureChallenge we have a handy webinar on @inaturalist.bsky.social species identification with Debashis Chowdhury, who is ranked 11th in Asia with over 150,000 identifications. youtu.be/38TNmGJ0q_0?...

Really incredible to see tiny Macau (biodiverse, but supposedly the most densely populated region in the world) currently leading Asia for observations and species in #CityNatureChallenge www.inaturalist.org/projects/cit... #CNC2025

Happy #CityNatureChallenge weekend. Early days yet but great to see 3 Asian cities it the top 5, including Macau finally pulling out of the shadow of #HongKong! www.inaturalist.org/projects/cit... #CNC2025 #CitizenScienceMonth

As of now, there are a little over 130 observations of this orchid species, the Hong Kong Ania (Ania hongkongensis) on iNaturalist. 📷 agnestrekker on iNaturalist 📍 Hong Kong 🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations... #ObservationOfTheDay

Here are some of the many (554) species we found on last year's Takahē to Tāone Hīkoi for the #CityNatureChallenge in Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ. You'd be most welcome to join us if you'd like to be part of the adventure this year. #nature #nz […] [Original post on mastodon.nz]

The second part of our CS.Asia Talk Presents... Innovative CitizenScience Tools & Apps webinar is a talk from Fabien Moustard covering the Kapta.Earth #citizenscience platform designed to turn any WhatsApp user into a potential active mapper, and then concludes with a Q&A youtu.be/p5zSX_mb1g0?...

EU Climate Action Academy webinar on 24th April. 🌍 Understand the role of citizen science in climate action at European, national and local level. 🔎 Explore how you can enrich climate science, by joining or creating citizen science initiatives. Register here: ec.europa.eu/newsroom/cli...

We have our CS.Asia Talk Presents... webinars on on Innovative CitizenScience Tools & Apps up on our youtube channel now. Part 1 is the Intro and Aurora project with Martin Brocklehurst youtu.be/e9PyKGkREuI?...

Nice to see #CitizenScience projects from the Philippines, this month GLFxMindanao is running 𝗕𝗜𝗢𝗗𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗜𝗧𝗬 𝗢𝗡 𝗟𝗘𝗡𝗦: 𝗖𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗭𝗘𝗡 𝗦𝗖𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗜𝗡 𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡, where citizens can help document biodiversity while learning from experts!

The final #AsiaNatureChallenge 2024 video is an explainer from how to Do Identification on @inaturalist.bsky.social from Debashis Chowdhury, who is ranked 11th in Asia with over 150,000 identifications youtu.be/38TNmGJ0q_0?...

Another video from #AsiaNatureChallenge, this one featuring Vijay Barve from @gbif.org as guest speaker: Discover the Impact of Citizen Science: Why and How to Join ANC youtu.be/btUwaP03Xyw?...

If you missed out on our #AsiaNatureChallenge last year you can see more in our Introductory Info session that is now live on our youtube channel youtu.be/IoJKiQE73iE

Check out and subscribe to the youtube channel of CitizenScience.Asia, telling the stories of citizen scientists across the worlds largest continent www.youtube.com/@CitSciAsia #citsci

In Malaysia, iNatter fero saw this Boddart's Blue-spotted Mudskipper (Boleophthalmus boddarti, Blodok in Malay) and it's our Observation of the Day! More details at: www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Excited to see how many new Asian cities have signed up for #CityNatureChallenge this year, including many from completely new countries (Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Afghanistan and Iran!) www.inaturalist.org/projects/cit...